Music for concentration
Episode m00048bv, broadcast at Wednesday 17th April 2019, 7:00pm.
“A specially curated sequence of classical, alternative and world music designed to help you concentrate. With music by Handel, Rachmaninov, Olafur Arnalds and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Eternal Source of Light Divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne, HWV 74)
- Performer Alison Balsom
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Performer Trevor Pinnock
- Ensemble The English Concert
- Singer Iestyn Davies
- 0:00 – The Long Day Closes
- Composer Arthur Sullivan
- Choir The King’s Singers
- Librettist Henry F. Chorley
- 0:00 – Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op 43
- Composer Sergey Rachmaninov
- Orchestra City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Sakari Oramo
- Performer Nikolai Lugansky
- 0:00 – Elegy in D flat, Op 23
- Ensemble The Florestan Trio
- Composer Josef Suk
- 0:00 – Studies for Orchestra, Op 16 No 1
- Conductor David Lloyd-Jones
- Orchestra Orchestra of Opera North
- Composer Arthur Bliss
- 0:00 – Sea of Vapours
- Singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Performer Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan
- Performer Michael Brook
- Performer David Bottrill
- Performer Darryl Johnson
- Performer James Pinker
- 0:00 – You're So Cool (True Romance: Main Title)
- Composer Hans Zimmer
- Ensemble Hans Zimmer's musicians
- 0:00 – Doria (Island Songs VII)
- Performer Ólafur Arnalds
- Performer Hallgrímur Jónas Jensson
- Performer Unnur Jónsdóttir
- Performer Karl Pestka
- Performer Sólveig Vaka Eyþórsdóttir
- Performer Viktor Orri Árnason
- 0:00 – In the Light of Air (Existence)
- Composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir
- Performer International Contemporary Ensemble